NO.1
Berlin, shows "Das Haus der Statistik", which was a building erected
during the GDR that is abandoned in today's Germany. This case is very
common to see in this country, since many buildings and some cities of
this stage are in a similar state of abandonment in the area of the
former Soviet occupation. The house of statistics stands as a great
ghost in the mega world capital that is now Berlin.
Architectural
language generally responds to the needs of the prevailing temporal
power, understood in this case as political systems. These sets vary
their role and importance over time depending on the evolution of each
nation. In general, past and present systems have created different
forms of architecture according to an ideological validation, the
socialist system that polarized the world was not exempt from this
pattern. it is a human need, to express ways of thinking in concrete
facts and to leave traces, although sometimes these traces are lost,
according to the interests imposed by the new times.
We know the need
for change and the immediacy with which contemporary societies move,
that constant consumption of new paradigms drives to replace the old
spaces that fill other areas of historical memory. The transformation of
society goes hand in hand with the transformation of a country's image,
and old projects are marginalized and even forgotten for representing
failed projects in some cases. Fallen Suns positions the viewer in front
of a kind of "window" with the negative form of a lattice, where ruined
urban landscapes of different societies are discovered.
No.1 Berlin
is a work that adopts the polyform format imitating a negative view of
the classic latticework of prefabricated architecture that began to
develop in Cuba with the revolution. This work presents an analysis of
the current state of Germany and its link to its old system, taking as a
starting point the architectural traces left by the rage of a polarized
world. The viewer would become a kind of judge who observes an image
filtered by his own context of these facts-buildings isolated from the
present, which positions him before a reflection on the traces of
socialism as a system.
